CLE: Pre-AILA Immigration Law and Crimes 2016
Pre-AILA Immigration Law and Crimes CLE 2016
4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, 89154
Tuesday, June 22, 2016
BSL – Room #112
9:00 am- 5:00 pm
This day-long Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminar is designed for both criminal defense attorneys and immigration attorneys
who represent individuals with criminal convictions. The CLE will focus on:
I. The categorical approach
II. Supreme Court Developments
III. Changes in Crime of Violence Analysis under 18 U.S.C. § 16
IV. Post-Conviction Relief
Event Registration
Presenters
Norton Tooby, author of Winning Padilla Claims (2012), Tooby’s Crimes of Moral Turpitude (2008), Tooby’s Guide to Criminal Immigration Law (2008), Criminal Defense of Immigrants (2007), Aggravated Felonies (2006), and Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions (2005). Located in Oakland, California, Norton Tooby holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College (1967) and a Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford Law School (1970), where he was the President of the Sanford Law Review from 1969-1970. Mr. Tooby specializes in criminal defense of immigrants, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and post-conviction relief for immigrants. He has written numerous practice manuals in these areas. For nearly 20 years, he has organized CLE seminars. He maintains www.NortonTooby.com, this criminal immigration research site.
Dan Kesselbrenner, Director, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Dan Kesselbrenner is a nationally recognized expert on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions and on contesting deportability in immigration proceedings. Dan is a co-author of Immigration Law and Crimes, which was cited in the 2010 Supreme Court decision, Padilla v. Kentucky, and has also authored numerous articles on immigration law. Dan has trained over 5,000 attorneys for the criminal defense bar as well as state judges in immigration consequences. He serves as mentor to scores of attorneys. A former member of the Clinton-Gore Department of Justice Immigrant Transition Team. Dan’s work advancing and defending immigrants’ rights has earned him numerous awards, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Jack Wasserman Litigation Award. Dan has directed the National Immigration Project since 1986.
Kathy Brady, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Kathy has served with the ILRC since 1987 and has contributed to numerous ILRC projects. Kathy graduated from Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law. She taught immigration las as an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University and New College School of Law, and supervised students at the Stanford University Law School Immigration Clinic. Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills. She is the primary author of Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit, which in its current form and as the former California Criminal Law and Immigration has been a publication since 1990. With Norton Tooby, she is the co-author of the 2014 CEB publication California Criminal Defense of Immigrants, and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice. She is also a co-author of the ILRC’s Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and the Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts. She has helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including serving as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. She authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on Immigration and crimes. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and she served as a Commissioner to the ABA Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. Prior to working at the ILRC, Kathy was in private practice with the immigration firm of Park and Associates. She is conversant in Spanish.
Agenda
Registration: 8:15 – 9:00am
CLE Seminar: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Lunch Break: At approximately 12:30 pm